Kiryat Ata (Hebrew: קִרְיַת אָתָא; also Qiryat Ata, Arabic: كريات آتا, Kiryāt ʾĀtā) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 50,700.
Population: 48,966
Latitude: 32° 48' 41.36" N
Longitude: 35° 06' 47.63" E
Tuba-Zangariyye or Tuba az-Zanghariyya (Arabic: طوبه زنغرية, Hebrew: טוּבָּא-זַנְגָרִיָה) is a Bedouin town in the North District of Israel that achieved local council status in 1988. It was formed by the merger of two villages, Tuba and az-Zangari…
Tel Shikmona (Šiqmônah, Hebrew: תל שִׁקְמוֹנָה) is an ancient tell (mound) situated near the sea coast on the modern city of Haifa, Israel, just south of the Israeli National Institute of Oceanography.
Tel Afek, (Hebrew: תל אפק), also spelled Aphek and Afeq, is an archaeological site located in the coastal hinterland of the Ein Afek Nature Reserve, east of Kiryat Bialik, Israel.
Ramat Yishai (Hebrew: רָמַת יִשַּׁי, Jesse's Heights) is a local council in the North District of Israel, located on the side of the Haifa–Nazareth road about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) eastern to Kiryat Tivon. It was declared a local council in 1958. Ac…
Nazareth Village is an open-air museum in Nazareth, Israel, that reconstructs and reenacts village life in the Galilee in the time of Jesus.
The Nahal Amud (Hebrew: נחל עמוד), also known as the Wadi Amud, is a stream in the Upper Galilee that spills into the Sea of Galilee.
The ruins at Jubb Yussef ("Joseph’s Well" in English, Arabic: جُبّ يُوسِف in Arabic, Hebrew: גוב יוסף) in the Galilee are identified with the pit in Dothan, into which the Biblical figure Joseph was cast into by his brothers, later to be sold to a…
Hurfeish (Arabic: حرفيش; Hebrew: חֻרְפֵישׁ) (lit.
The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum is a museum located on the grounds of the University of Haifa, Israel.
The Grand Canyon (Hebrew: גרנד קניון, literally "Grand Mall," a play on words with the actual Grand Canyon) is the largest shopping mall in northern Israel, located in the northern city of Haifa.
Samakh (Arabic: سمخ) was a Palestinian Arab village at the south end of Lake Tiberias in Palestine (nw in Israel).
Tamra (Arabic: طمرة; Hebrew: טַמְרָה or תַמְרָה) is an Arab village in north-eastern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council.
Rumat al-Heib (Arabic: رُمة الهـَيـْب; Hebrew: רומת אל-הייב) is a Bedouin village in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth in the Lower Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of the al-Batuf Regional Council. In 2011 it had a population of 1,71…
The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred on March 31, 2002, when a Palestinian Hamas suicide bomber detonated his bomb inside the Matza restaurant in Haifa, Israel, near the Grand Canyon shopping mall, killing 16 Israeli civilians and injuring …
Ela-Nabi Sa'in Mosque (Hebrew: אלא נבי סעין Arabic: الى النبي ساعين ) is a mosque located at a height of 487 meters above sea level, on the northwestern outskirts of Nazareth, Israel. The mosque is located at the height of the ridge height of encl…
Mahmood Mosque (Arabic: مسجد محمود) is a mosque in Kababir, Haifa, built by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the late 1970s.
Kishor (Hebrew: כישור, lit. Distaff) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.
Kahal (Hebrew: כָּחָל) is a moshav in the Galilee near Highway 85 in northern Israel. The moshav is a combined agricultural community. It lies at the border of the Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee, north of Lake Kinneret and just northwest of Tabgha.